Heading back to Paycom Center for Game 5, the Oklahoma City Thunder must outperform an Indiana Pacers team who thrives in road environments.

Oklahoma City Thunder's Chet Holmgren reassured fans about his ankle injury ahead of the crucial Game 5 against the Indiana Pacers. Despite twisting his ankle in Game 4, Holmgren played through the pain,

The Indiana Pacers are looking to bounce back from a tough loss in Game 4 against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals.

The NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers are tied 2-2 after OKC overcame a double-digit deficit in Game 4 to even the series. OKC outscored the Pacers 12-3 in the final 3:34 of the game and will now go back to having home-court advantage.

The Thunder didn’t even exist in Oklahoma City when the 1995 bombing happened; the franchise that had been known as the Seattle SuperSonics didn’t relocate to America’s heartland until more than a decade later.

The modern iteration of the city, of course, is not just shaped by its urban renewal, but by the never-healing scar of being subject to the worst domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history — the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995, which killed 168 people.

NBA regular season with very few question marks after a breakthrough 57-win campaign. The questions are what any contending team would want asked of it. Can the Thunder repeat as the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference?

The Oklahoma City Thunder have its back against the wall again. At some point, they have to shift its mindset.